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Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court upholds GOP voting restrictions in Arizona  —  The Supreme Court today upheld a pair of voting restrictions in Arizona, likely paving the way for new limitations across the country.  —  Why it matters: It's the court's biggest voting rights decision in several years.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voting Restrictions  —  The decision, a test of what remains of the Voting Rights Act, suggested that challenges to many new measures making it harder to vote may not be successful.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld voting restrictions …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs Donor Privacy for California Charities  —  Conservative groups challenged the state's disclosure requirements, saying they could lead to harassment.  —  The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that California may not require charities soliciting contributions in the state to report the identities of their major donors.
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court upholds Arizona voting rules, including ballot harvesting ban  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two Republican-supported Arizona voting laws they say are intended to ensure election integrity.  —  The decision, delivered by a 6-3 court split on partisan lines …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting laws in test of Voting Rights Act … WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two election laws in the 2020 battleground state of Arizona that challengers said make it harder for minorities to vote.
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court strikes down California donor disclosure requirement  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a California donor disclosure requirement that a series of conservative groups said targeted them.  —  In a 6-3 decision, the court found that the requirement is invalid …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court strikes down California law requiring charities to disclose top donors to attorney general
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
The Supreme Court Deals A New Blow To Voting Rights, Upholding Arizona Restrictions
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Arizona voting laws a lower court found were unfair to minorities
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and Daily Kos
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Supreme Court expansion push starts to fizzle
New York Times:
Top Trump Executive, Allen Weisselberg, Surrenders to Face Charges  —  The Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg have been indicted in connection with a tax investigation and are expected to appear in court Thursday.  —  Donald J. Trump's long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump aide: Ex-prez emboldened by indictment news  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TRUMP ORG INDICTMENT DAY — “New York grand jury returns criminal indictments against Trump's company and its CFO, the first from prosecutors probing the former president's business dealings,” …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ed Henry Sues Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, Alleging She Covered Up Affair Between Network President and Employee
Washington Post:
N.Y. grand jury said to return criminal indictments against Trump's company and its CFO, the first from prosecutors probing the former president's business dealings
New York Times:
Trump Organization and Top Executive Are Indicted in Tax Investigation
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Kinzinger on McCarthy's Jan. 6 investigation threat: ‘Who gives a s—?’  —  Rep. Adam Kinzinger knows GOP leaders wanted to scare him away from serving on the Democrat-led panel investigating the Capitol riot.  And he doesn't care one bit.  —  “Who gives a shit?” the Illinois Republican …
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Jamie Gangel / CNN:
McCarthy threatens to strip GOP members of committee assignments if they accept an offer from Pelosi to serve on 1/6 commission  —  Pelosi announces House will establish January 6 insurrection probe  —  (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday issued a blanket threat during …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Which Republicans Should Be Put on the January 6 Committee?  —  The committee is too partisan, moans Kevin McCarthy.  Gee, who's to blame for that?  —  Let's get Kevin McCarthy's record straight:  — The House Republican leader supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's bogus lawsuit …
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
House Democrats call on McCarthy to ‘take immediate action’ to address Greene's behavior  —  (CNN)Nearly 40 House Democrats are demanding House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy take what they call “immediate action” to address the behavior of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia …
Discussion: UPROXX and POLITICUSUSA
Zac Houston / House Republican Leader:
McCarthy Statement on the National Security Agency
George Packer / The Atlantic:
How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered  —  In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for The New Yorker, a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war.  This was a first; until then, no one close to the president would talk to me …
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Matt Latimer / Politico:
The Don Rumsfeld the Obituaries Won't Write About
Washington Post:
Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs  —  The president of the board of the Florida condominium that collapsed last week resigned in 2019, partly in frustration over what she saw as the sluggish response to an engineer's report …
Discussion: New York Times
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Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Judge Denies Britney Spears' Request to Remove Father From Conservatorship Again … New court documents that were filed by the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday show that the judge has denied the request by Spears' attorney, Samuel Ingham III, to remove her father, Jamie Spears, as her sole conservator.
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Joe Rogan Is Too Big to Cancel  —  He's now one of the most consumed media products on the planet.  His Spotify deal, estimated at $100 million, speaks to the allure of making audiences feel they're in on something subversive.  —  The other comics called him “Little Ball of Anger” …
CBC News:
Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says ‘the whole town is on fire’  —  Several out-of-control wildfires burning in other parts of province after heat wave  —  A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed …
Discussion: CBS News and The Daily Beast
Los Angeles Times:
17 hurt in huge blast during LAPD detonation of explosive devices  —  A major explosion in South Los Angeles on Wednesday evening damaged homes and injured 17 people, including police officers, as a bomb squad attempted to safely detonate improvised explosive devices that had been seized …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Florida law that would penalize social media companies  —  A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Florida law that would penalize social media companies for blocking a politician's posts, a blow to conservatives' efforts to respond to Facebook and other websites' suspension of former President Donald Trump.
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Decency, R.I.P.  —  If manners are the small change of morality, we've gone bankrupt a few cents at a time.  —  Sen. Mitt Romney appeared on Jake Tapper's CNN show last weekend and for a few brief minutes I felt transported to a saner world.  Asked about the gross things some on the right …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Sway / New York Times:
What's Keeping Biden's Chief of Staff Up at Night?  —  ‘Everything’ — except, apparently, the midterms.  —  Back to Sway  —  More episodes of  —  • 33:20  —  Guy Fieri Has a Reminder for America  —  • 35:01  —  Exercise, and Accept Your ‘Inevitable Demise’  —  • 34:36
Politico:
‘Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris' office rife with dissent  —  When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.  —  For days, aides and outside allies had been calling …
Joe Sonka / USA Today:
Charles Booker makes it official, announces run for US Senate seat held by Rand Paul  —  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Almost exactly one year after his bid for U.S. Senate came up just short in the Democratic primary, Charles Booker formally launched his new candidacy for the office Thursday …
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action  —  On the tape, made in a Greenpeace sting, he described working with “shadow groups” to fight climate science, and detailed efforts to weaken President Biden's proposals to burn less oil.
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
Ten Things We Now Know About the Nonwhite Working Class Vote in 2020  —  Danger Signs for Democrats  —  I thought it would be useful to do a companion post to last week's post on “Ten Things We Now Know About the White Working Class Vote in 2020” focusing on the nonwhite working class vote.
 
 
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
College students skeptical of GOP crackdown on critical race theory
Julie Gordon / Page Six:
Meghan McCain to announce she's leaving ‘The View’
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Unarmed Hunter Brittain Was Killed By Police But Unfortunately For His Family, He's White
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American Greatness:
Has the Military Lost Middle America?
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
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CNN:
DHS raises alarms over potential for summer violence pegged to August conspiracy theory
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Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
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